Movies like Dear Uma
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Dear Uma (2025)
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
"Dear Uma" is a film that narrates the story of Dev, a rock star who falls in love with Uma, a medical student. As the plot unfolds, Dev realizes that he is enamored with Uma's soul rather than Uma herself. The central mystery revolves around why Dev is the only one who can perceive the soul of Uma, who had passed away long ago.
Style:
romantic drama, romantic, emotional, poignant, melancholic, psychological, nostalgic
Plot:
ghost, supernatural romance, soul, afterlife, a vision, medical school, haunting, paranormal, tragedy, memory, spiritualism, secrets, grief, melancholy, loss, young adult, obsession, unrequited love, city, identity
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Dear Uma
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, psychological and art house films with plots about grief, loss, memory, identity, intimate, haunting and slow burn mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Dear Uma: Max and Me (2020), Above All Things (2018), Drinker Sai (2024), Now (2006), Homestay (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A coming of age story about an awkward teenage boy who falls in love with the girl next door, who he soon discovers passed away the year before from Cystic Fibrosis, and he's in love...with a ghost.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sentimental, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural romance, ghost, young lovers, death of lover, impossible love, love, girl next door, teenager, coming of age, couple relations, love and romance, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
grief, ghost, loss, isolation, lake, mourning, haunting, supernatural, bereavement, cottage, afterlife, memory ...
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77%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, intense, dark ...
Plot:
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59
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, romantic drama, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, dream, secret, memory, journey, longing, grief, haunting, male protagonist, intimate, road trip, friend ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
When a spirit inhabits the body of a teen named Min, he begins to settle into his life until he's forced to find out who caused Min's mysterious death.
Style:
emotional, psychological, melancholic, suspense, twisted ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, second chance, ghost, supernatural, reincarnation, identity, haunting, teenager, memory, coming of age, redemption, regret ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, independent film, melancholic, existential, twist ending ...
Plot:
loss, grief, character study, loneliness, obsession, sacrifice, imagination, relationships, family secret, memory, revelation, haunting ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
Style:
surreal, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, memories, intimate, afterlife, a vision, mourning, supernatural, ghost, haunting, existentialism, spirituality ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, atmospheric, art house, poetic ...
Plot:
loneliness, obsession, grief, mourning, passion, loss, memory, delusion, male protagonist, symbolism, haunting, flashback ...
Place:
india, france, normandy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Shelia, a single mom and sometime paranormal investigator, is enlisted to investigate a possible “haunting” at a widower’s farmhouse in East Tennessee.
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, single mother, haunting, paranormal phenomena, loss of wife, single parent, bereavement, paranormal activity, female protagonist, grief, investigation ...
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, romantic drama, dramatic, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, mumbai india, kolkata, india
Similarity:
42%
17
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
What is an eternity without the ones you love? Iris has lived a life of secrets, but with the imminent death of her last living relative, she has left herself open to new feelings while still longing for her lost true love.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
childhood, tragedy, divorce, runaway, loss, child protagonist, family drama, grief, death of child, accident, symbolism, family conflict ...
Time:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 111 min.
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Style:
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A young man struggles with his past and sense of justice, and a girl who brings hope enters his life. The lingering question remains—can love change him, or will his past stand in the way?
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, sensitive, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loneliness, unrequited love, heartbreak, soul searching, obsession, love triangle, coming of age
Time:
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Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, bleak, emotional ...
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada
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Story:
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